I'M STILL HERE

Bet you all thought I had forgotten about these blocks. No way! I have been a bit busy on other things. I am now in catch up mode again. I pulled a load of fabric from the cupboard at cut it into strips which I thought were the most popular sizes used for these blocks and have been gaily chopping away. Here are the results so far....

Here are my strips...

and off I go...

Queen Charlotte's Crown - Week 31

Hearth and Home - Week 30

Mrs Morgan's Choice - Week 29

1930's Square - Week 24

1941 Nine Patch - Week 23

Z Cross - Week 26

Leap Frog - Week 12

Rally Round - Week 34

Envelope Motif - Week 28

Windmill 2 - Week 27

Rotunda - Week 3

Triangle Chain - Week 25

You may notice slight differences in my blocks and the printed ones on Quilter's Cache, I just decided I would do them a quicker way from some of the instructions given!!! Oops! Sometimes I went wrong too! Oh well, can't be helped, I am getting there though...off I go to make more of the backlog blocks.

Whewww! All Caught Up.

Well, except for the new one QP posted yesterday. It looks like a good one so I'll get on it this weekend. But I did get all the others done. So here you go....

Week #31~Queen Charlottes Crown. I loved Hetty's history lesson. It made this block all the more interesting. Done in homespuns.


Week #30~ Hearth & Home. This one looked so easy I didn't even bother to read the directions but just used 2 & 1/2" strips & squares I already had cut.


Week #29~ Mrs. Morgans Choice. I didn't care for the design of this block so I copied Kathie. Sometimes it seems like Quilter's Catch makes these blocks more difficult than they need to be by using all those little pieces when a larger piece would do just as well.


Week #28~ Envelope Motif. What's with that name? It look's like a star pattern of some sort. Shouldn't it be Star Something-or-other?


Week #27~Windmill 2. This was a smaller block so I used those bright fabrics for my grandbaby quilt. I've got some multi-colored polka dot fabric I will sash it with to tie the blocks together. Jackson is going to need sunglasses when he's laying on it.


Week #26~Z Cross. I actually did this block back in June but apparently I never posted it here. I was quite intrigued by the secondary pattern created with multiple blocks and actually put together a small wall hanging.


The wall hanging has a nice primative look to it so I am quilting it with that heavy perle cotton and using a big stitch. I've never tried that before and I'm having a heck of a time. I'm not sure how to bury the knots. I may do some machine quilting to finish it up because the heavy perle cotton stuff is a real pain to stitch with.

week 29

Another one caught up on :-)

Working with HST's has become straight forward...

Mrs. Giraffe's Choice

I'm not crazy about this block, both the way it is designed and the way I changed it by filling in the background. And for some unknown reason it seemed to take me way longer to make this one than seemed reasonable. And then my middle points are off. Oh, well... on to the next one.

Heather's 28 - 30

I've been a slacker because I've been distracted by another project. So I decided today to catch up with blocks 28, 29, 30. I decided to start with week 28 because that was an easy one.

I made every mistake possible and a few that were quite improbable. Made sections the wrong size? Check. Put together wrong? Check. You name it, I did it. I even had to go at one point and lay down in another room and count to 10 since it was dangerous for me to be around sharp objects in my current frame of mind.

So, I did the mature thing. I declared block #28 to be dead to me and moved on. We shall no longer speak the name.



I started using the mangled pieces of the block that shall not be named and made week 30. It went together with no problems whatsoever. I think it heard me cussing the previous block. Thank you very much.

Week 20 is the top block and it got fussy too. I had a hard time keeping things in order. There was a bit too much seam ripping for my taste. But I did learn something cool. One seam flying geese. It makes a 3D block. Here's the video. This only works on flying geese that are half as tall as they are wide. Yes, that was one of the many errors on that very naughty block.

Week 29

I like this one! A lot of pieces, and I had to concentrate to get everything where it was supposed to be, but I got there in the end! I used blue batik which certainly helped the little squares (2") to lie flat. I'm pleased with the choice of blue and ivory - very fresh looking.

Ros

Kathie's Week 29

I know the directions called for lots of half-square triangles, but I hate having all those extra seams when they aren't necessary. I constructed mine without any HST. I made 4 flying geese for the middle pinwheel, 4 flying geese for part of the border, 6 2.5x4.5 rectangles and 2 2.5x8.5 rectanges with triangles sewn on each end. I wanted the windmill in the middle to stand out, so I altered the design to fill in all the middle with the seashell fabric.

Not My Choice!

I finished this week's block! This one took me several hours - I lost track of time after the first couple of hours. I thought I was never going to get all those HSTs together. I have to agree with QP, this block definitely reminds me of the blades of a Dutch windmill too. So to express my heritage, I used a blue and white background fabric - reminiscent of Delft Blue pottery. Then I used a wild batik for the 'blades'. I wanted them to have depth. I hope I accomplished that. I like how it turned out, but I think this one will be a one-of-a-kind!

week 29

This week's block is another 12" using Half Square triangles...

Mrs. Morgan's Choice reminds me of the baldes on a Dutch Windmill.